Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,691 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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(1860) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “A Slave’s Appeal”
Black Family Arrives in Chicago from the South, ca. 1919
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The Great Migration (1915-1960)
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Todd D. Robinson (1963- )
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C.R. Patterson & Sons Company (1893-1939)

Explore Global African History

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Adama Barrow (1965- )
Workers and a child sitting and standing around a table and paper drawers
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O Clarim da Alvorada (1924-1932)
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Mirambo (ca. 1840-1884)
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Quibdo, Colombia (1648- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Black Baseball in Minnesota: The Pipestone Black Sox
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
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Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society
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Dana, Wyoming, A Black Town in the Coal Mining West

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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11/26/2021 – Executive Director – Seattle, Washington